Databases

• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
• SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
• Cornell University Library Astrophysics Preprint Service

Global and Local Communities

• International Astronomical Union IAU
• The International Astronomy Meetings List
• Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy SSAA
• Astronomischer Verein Basel AVB

Swiss Institutes for Astronomy

• Geneva Observatory
• Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zürich
• Institute for Astronomy, University of Bern
• Space Research and Planetary Sciences, University of Bern
• Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern
• International Space Science Institute, Bern
• Institute for Solar Research, Locarno
• Solar Research Group, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Windisch

Some Projects and Facilities

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Dark Energy Survey
• European Southern Observatory
• VISTA ― Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
• Hubble Space Telescope